Interaction Designer

Our client, a nationally recognized brand with headquarters in Chicago, is seeking a senior Interaction Designer to join their growing UX team.

In this role, you will be responsible for balancing business and product requirements, making sure to consider market analysis, user feedback, site metrics, and usability findings to create purposeful content organization and design simplified experiences for an ecommerce site.

Responsibilities include:

Participate in user research planning and execution to identify user needs, goals, and preferences, and collect feedback to incorporate into deliverables

Create user scenarios to develop process and user flows

Lead the delivery of concepts on paper, wireframes or detailed prototypes to communicate solutions and test with users

Lead the development of design specifications and standards in the form of journeys, storyboards, site maps, wireframes, and prototypes to ensure the digital experience flows seamlessly from one step to the next and clearly communicates the information architecture and intended interaction behaviors

Ability to navigate and facilitate conversations with various stakeholders

Present designs to product teams and stakeholders in a meaningful way that shares the vision and goals of the designs and clearly articulates design decisions

Work closely with developers to ensure technical feasibility and quality of design execution, and collaborate on alternative solutions when scope or technical implementation challenges arise

Participate as needed in QA testing, providing clear descriptions of issues and opportunities

Work with analytics team to determine post launch success metrics and use the collected data to suggest improvements

Help to create and maintain our pattern library, design system, documentation and templates

Excellent portfolio showcasing information architecture and interaction design artifacts for desktop and mobile devices; candidate will be required to show a few projects from conception to completion, talk through their process, and the role they played

Strong communication and presentation skills, self-motivated with the ability to work with a team and independently and able to perform multiple tasks under minimal supervision

Disclaimer:

The client is unable to support 1099 / Corp-to-Corp or Independent Contractor arrangements at this time. All freelancers will be paid as W2 employees.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

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